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- Nov 07, 2020
Bloke Quotes
Just an ordinary bloke.
This page gathers bloke quotes with a distinctly British, self-deprecating tone, including flattery from an admiring bloke and pushback against assumptions about a bigger bloke's fitness.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Entertain People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I'm bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, 'I can't back down now,' so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
To act for a living is a gift, and understanding you're a lucky bloke keeps your feet on the ground.
- Chubby
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bloke once yelled out: 'You've got chubby knees.' I was 19. I've had a real complex about my knees ever since.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
- Miss
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wife's run off with the bloke next door. I do miss him.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an obvious display of blatant sexism when I couldn't get signed. They didn't say I was ugly. They didn't say that they didn't like the music. They said I was too old! At 26! So Badly Drawn Boy, Doves, Elbow, James Blunt - you can be a gnarly old beardy bloke with a bit of a paunch and that's all right?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's dead flattering, isn't it? I have got a big gay following. I actually find it more flattering when a bloke comes on to you than a woman. I've even found myself flirting back sometimes!
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020